1o Bimestre (Units 1 and 2)

School: Student(s):

Read the text below and do exercises 1-3.

Girls education and gender equality

Girls education is both an intrinsic right and a critical lever to reaching other development
objectives. Providing girls with an education helps break the cycle of poverty: educated women are
less likely to marry early and against their will; less likely to die in childbirth; more likely to have
healthy babies; and are more likely to send their children to school. When all children have access
to a quality education rooted in human rights and gender equality, it creates a ripple effect of
opportunity that influences generations to come.
Girls education is essential to the achievement of quality learning relevant to the 21st century,
including girls transition to and performance in secondary school and beyond. Adolescent girls
that attend school delay marriage and childbearing, are less vulnerable to disease including HIV
and AIDS, and acquire information and skills that lead to increased earning power. Evidence shows
that the return to a year of secondary education for girls correlates to a 25 per cent increase in
wages later in life.
From: <www.unicef.org/education/bege_70640.html>. Accessed in: May 2015. (fragment)

1 According to the text, how is it possible to break the cycle of poverty?

2 Write T (True) or F (False). Then, correct the false statement(s).

a. Educated women have fewer chances of marrying against their will.

b. Educated women have more chances of sending their children to school.

c. Teenage girls who attend school marry early.

d. The return to a year of secondary education for girls means earning 25% more later in life.

3 In it creates a ripple effect of opportunity, what does the pronoun it refer to?

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 2o Bimestre (Units 3 and 4)

School: Student(s):

Read the text below and do exercises 1 and 2.

Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems

Most plants and animals live in areas with very specific climate conditions, such as
temperature and rainfall patterns, that enable them to thrive. Any change in the climate of an
area can affect the plants and animals living there, as well as the makeup of the entire ecosystem.
Some species are already responding to a warmer climate by moving to cooler locations. (...)
Climate change also alters the life cycles of plants and animals. For example, as temperatures get
warmer, many plants are starting to grow and bloom earlier in the spring and survive longer into
the fall. Some animals are waking from hibernation sooner or migrating at different times, too.
Disappearing Habitats
As the Earth gets warmer, plants and animals that need to live in cold places, like on
mountaintops or in the Arctic, might not have a suitable place to live. If the Earth keeps getting
warmer, up to onefourth of all the plants and animals on Earth could become extinct within 100
years. Every plant and animal plays a role in the ecosystem (for example, as a source of food, a
predator, a pollinator, a source of shelter), so losing one species can affect many others.
What can people do about it?
Just like people, plants and animals will have to adapt to climate change. Many types of birds
in North America are already migrating further north as the temperature warms. People can help
these animals adapt by protecting and preserving their habitats.
From: <www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/kids/index.html>. Accessed in: May 2015. (fragment)

1 Answer the following questions based on the text above. Use fragments from the text to
answer the questions.

a. What are the consequences of changes in the climate of an area?

b. What could happen if the Earth keeps getting warmer?

c. What could people do to help animals adapt to climate change?

2 In very specific climate conditions, such as temperature and rainfall patterns, what idea
does such as express?
Comparison. Exemplification.

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 3o Bimestre (Units 5 and 6)

School: Student(s):

Read the text below and do exercises 1-3.

EDUCATION COUNTS

because it helps eradicate poverty and hunger

Education gives people the knowledge and skills they need to live better lives. It can
boost productivity and open doors to jobs and credit.
Poverty is one of the main reasons children are being left out of school.
The worlds 500 richest people have a combined income greater than the worlds 416 million
poorest people.
2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day, accounting for 40% of the worlds population but
only 5% of its income.
Less than 1% of the worlds gross domestic product - $300 billion - would lift 1 billion people
out of poverty. This amount represents 1.6% of the income of the richest 10% of the worlds
population.
Each additional year of schooling raises average Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth by 0.37%. = Produto Interno Bruto (PIB)

From: Education Counts: Towards the Millennium Development Goals. UNESCO, 2011, p. 6.
Available at: <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001902/190214e.pdf>. Accessed in: May 2015.

1 Answer the following questions based on the text above.

a What can education give people?

b. What is one of the main reasons for children not to attend school?

c. How many people in the world live on less than two dollars a day?

2 Complete the statement below with expressions in the text.

The combined income of the 500 in the world is greater than

the combined income of the worlds 416 million .

3 In It can boost productivity, the verb to boost is equivalent to

increase. decrease.

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 4o Bimestre (Units 7 and 8)

School: Student(s):

Read the text below and do exercises 1 and 2.

Art challenges people to look for different answers to a single problem, by stimulating
different points of view and ways of thinking, as opposed to formal education, which imposes
convergence towards a single answer, says Idelli Nichele, regional coordinator of Projeto Gur in
Jundia, close to the southern city of Sao Paulo.
Proposing alternative solutions in school usually means being wrong, and is seen as deviating
from the single right answer, a process that stifles creativity. Uniform thought is not thought nor
reflection, but merely the reproduction of ideas, adds this educator, a disenchanted former head
teacher at conventional schools.
Music is a proven instrument for fostering logical reasoning, but it also stimulates its
practitioners to look for variations on melodies and harmonies. Jazz is fantastic in this respect,
said Nichele, who has also taught university-level art education courses.
Creativity is the outcome - a gift which is increasingly important in the economy and in
peoples lives, but which formal education tends to quench by focusing on the mass production of
technicians and professionals who are processed like parts in an industrial assembly line.
From: <www.globalissues.org/news/2009/09/14/2797>. Accessed in: May 2015. (fragment)

1 Answer the following questions based on the text above.

a. How does art challenge people to look for different answers to a single problem?

b. According to Idelli Nichele, what do conventional schools usually impose through formal
education?

c. How does she describe uniform thought?

d. What is increasingly important in the economy and in peoples lives?

2 In a process that stifles creativity, the verb to stifle is equivalent to

incentivar in Portuguese.
sufocar in Portuguese.

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